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Do you want a better life? According to the author of the following article, the solution is easy. Simply change the way you look at yourself --- and you will change the way you live. Improving your self-image is your key to living a better life.
你想生活變得更美好嗎？據下面這篇文章的作者所述，解決這個問題的辦法很簡單。你只要改變看待自己的方式--你就會改變你生活的方式。改善你的自我意象便是過上更加美好生活的關鍵。
Your Key to a Better Life
生活更美好的關鍵
Maxwell Maltz
馬克斯韋爾·馬爾茲
The most important psychological of this century is the discovery of the "self-image." Whether we realize it or not, each of us carries about with us a mental blueprint or picture of ourselves. It may be vague and ill-defined to our conscious gaze. In fact, it may not be consciously recognizable at all. But it is there, complete down to the last detail. This self-image is our own conception of the "sort of person I am." It has been built up from our own beliefs about ourselves. But most of these beliefs about ourselves have unconsciouslybeen formed our past experiences, our successes and failures, our humiliations, our triumphs, and the way other people have reacted to us, especially in early childhood. From all these we mentally construct a "self," (or a picture of a self). Once an idea or a belief about ourselves goes into this picture it becomes "true", as far as we personally are concerned. We do not question its validity, but proceed to act upon it just as if it were true.
本世紀最重要的心理學發現就是“自我意象”。不管我們意識到與否，我們每個人的腦子里都有一幅自我“藍圖”或自我畫像。在我們有意識的凝視之下，它也許是模糊不清的；事實上，我們也許根本無法有意識地去認識它。但它確實是存在的，每一個細節都完整無缺。這一自我意象就是“我是怎樣一種人”的自我概念。它建立在我們的自我信念之上。但是，這些自我信念大部分是根據我們過去的經歷，我們的成功和失敗、我們的羞辱、我們的勝利以及他人對我們的反應，特別是根據童年時期的種種經歷在不知不覺中形成的。根據所有這些以往的經歷，我們便在自己的腦子里形成了一個“自我”（或一幅自我畫像）。就我們個人而言，一旦關于我們自己的某種想法或信念進入這幅畫像，它就變成了“真實的”。我們從不懷疑它是否可信，而是根據它去行動，就好像它是真的一樣。
